Ch. 14 Printing Processes Cross-Word puzzle

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  1. 3. A printing method in which inked images are offset or transferred from one surface to another
  2. 4. A rubber or plastic blade used to force ink though the open areas of a screen-printing stencil
  3. 7. A uniform stack of paper hat accepts sheets from the delivery system of a sheet-fed press
  4. 11. A device that automatically shuts down the press if the web snaps or tears
  5. 13. A curved of triangular plane that serves as the surface on a web-feed press
  6. 14. The result of poor cutting or adhering techniques of stencils
  7. 15. A method of printing from cells or depressions that are engraved below the nonimage area of the printing cylinder
  8. 17. The distance across individual open areas between adjacent threads
  9. 19. Printing system that prints both sides of the substrate at once
  10. 20. A single thread
  11. 22. A resilient material that is attached to a cylinder and used as an image transfer material
  12. 24. A printing system component that hold the plate on the press
  13. 26. A group of rollers designed to carry ink to the image area of the printing plate
  14. 28. threads that run horizontally, at 90 angle tot he wrap threads
  15. 29. Percentage f area per square inch in a through which ink can pass
  16. 30. A group of rollers designed to apply moisture to the non image area of the printing plate
Down
  1. 1. Devices that provided a vacuum to remove sheets from a stack and position them for access to the press
  2. 2. A splicer that bonds a new web to the existing web without stopping any operations on a web-fed press
  3. 5. A duplicate relief plate that is produced from a mold through an electrochemical process
  4. 6. A lithographic that prints paper one sheet at a time it is fed through the system
  5. 8. Solvents added to ink to thin the viscosity and slow the drying time
  6. 9. Threads that run vertically, at a 90 angle to the weft threads
  7. 10. Solvent used dissolve ink from a screen
  8. 12. A printing system component that brings the paper into contact with the blanket cylinder
  9. 16. Flexible relief plates commonly used in flexographic printing
  10. 18. A Feeding system mechanism that places paper in the register for printing on a press
  11. 21. A device used to bond a new roll to the end of an existing on a web-fed press
  12. 23. Solvents added to ink to change the viscosity of the ink. They do not affect drying time
  13. 25. The number of threads (of stands) per linear in in a fabric
  14. 27. An instrument that measure screen fabric tension